{"id":556446,"date":"2023-02-17T11:08:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=556446"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T07:31:49","slug":"air-india-places-order-for-840-aircraft-includes-option-to-buy-370-planes-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-places-order-for-840-aircraft-includes-option-to-buy-370-planes-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India places order for 840 aircraft; includes option to buy 370 planes: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Group-owned Air India has placed an order for 840 planes with Airbus and Boeing, including the option to acquire 370 aircraft, with a senior airline official on Thursday saying the order is a &#8220;landmark moment&#8221; in the Indian aviation history.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by Air India&#8217;s Chief Commercial and Transformation Officer Nipun Aggarwal comes a day after the airline said it has placed a firm order for 470 aircraft &#8212; 250 from Airbus and 220 from Boeing.<\/p>\n<p>In a LinkedIn post, Aggarwal said the airline is humbled by the excitement generated across the world by the airline&#8217;s aircraft order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The order comprises 470 firm aircraft, 370 options and purchase rights to be procured from Airbus and Boeing over the next decade,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Group-owned Air India has placed an order for 840 planes with Airbus and Boeing, including the option to acquire 370 aircraft, with a senior airline official on Thursday saying the order is a &#8220;landmark moment&#8221; in the Indian aviation history. The announcement by Air India&#8217;s Chief Commercial and Transformation Officer Nipun Aggarwal comes a day after the airline said it has placed a firm order for 470 aircraft &#8212; 250 from Airbus and 220 from Boeing. In a LinkedIn post, Aggarwal said the airline is humbled by the excitement generated across the world by the airline&#8217;s aircraft order. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}